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This roundtable event brings together faculty and students in conversation on the topic of grounding energy – generating a counter-narrative to our historical extractive practices. We explore how design research pedagogies can critically re-narrate the enduring material flows and metabolic transformations of the Australian landscape over time, unveiling the evolving perceptions and values attributed to land and its non-human counterparts through periods of colonisation and capital growth.
Rosalea Monacella is a faculty member of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and recently appointed Adjunct Professor at UTS. Her expertise is in the careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of the city. Her design research practice explores the notion of the “thickened ground” through a careful and rigorous investigation of an expanded ecology of economic, ecological and social systems that shape the metabolic and material flows of the city. Speculating on alternative near-future cities and how they might respond to climate change, changing resource flows and ecologies of energy.
